The CL spamers have a new trick, well its new to me. They send you a email that looks harmless enough and than BAM if you reply to it they hit you with tons of Spam.

Let me start from the beginning so as not to look like a spamers myself. I was selling some stuff on CL with a link to my other website, for no other reason than I am notoriously lazy when it comes to posting things, so I post one thing and people look at my other stuff too. Well I have a contact page with email, phone, etc but thats not how they are getting me. They send me an email about what I am advertising that looks like a ligament inquiry and when I replied by the next morning I had five emails from other email address of just junk.

You may think that I would know better but I trust that most people will do whats right. Well thats where I went wrong, as we all know that spamers are not big on doing whats right or proper if they did they wouldn’t be spamers.

Can this plague on the Internet ever be stopped or are they just a blight that must be endured for as long as the net holds together? The way I see it is that it will only stop when it proves to no longer be profitable. Keep that in mind when you actually read some of them thinking that what ever they are selling looks good!

Lately I have been fighting with review spammers on a website that I care for. It has been a horoablr and brutal battle with no end in sight. The website is set up with a simple review function so that people can review the products. Well the idea is good but I had not thought of ways that people can abuse this function. It seems that every day the site takes in about ten or so spam reviews, oh they are the purest form of spam. All it seems to be is a bunch of websites all in a row with NO real content or value. I don’t mind people pitching their websites in a review, but this is ridicules!

My first attempt at discouraging them was a fake virus warning that I attaches to the review button, but that just pissed them off so they started to spam the contact form. I think I will put that back up for a few more days with a few more changes to make it look more real.

For now I just keep deleting them as fast as I can, so the review is never indexed.
Wish me luck!!
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